Intro
I'm back, with the next installment of the Disney Princess Analysis. This time, we will look over the third official Disney Princess, Aurora. She was created only about eight years after Cinderella. Though she doesn't have a huge role in her own movie, I will try to analyze as much as I can with what we have. So, let's dive into the story of Sleeping Beauty, and see what character traits we can find for her.
The Three Fairy Wishes
We start at the birth of Aurora, where she is celebrated and showered with gifts. The fairies have their own kind of gifts. Starting off with the gift of beauty, and the gift of song. These are traits that the princess basically got from birth if you think about it. Not sure if beauty is a character trait, but honestly, sometimes attractive is being counted as one, so we will count that. And of course great singer or maybe virtuoso (This is someone who is talented at something, especially playing an instrument or singing. These gifts are basically part of her, whether she wants it or not.
Writer's Note: A character being cursed or blessed at birth is something we see often in stories, especially fairy tales. Like Sleeping Beauty, Fiona from Shrek... There are more of those. Usually struggling with a curse. But what if a character sees their curse or blessing as the opposite? A character being blessed with happiness all their lives? What if they wished they could cry or be angry? It would be an interesting thing to see a character struggling with something others consider a gift and trying to get rid of it.
Her Sheltered Life In The Woods
A sheltered life seems to be a bit of a trend with Disney Princesses. Even the more modern princesses are a bit sheltered before they finally go on their journey. However, Aurora is luckily not stuck with an evil stepmother, but being brought up by her three 'aunts', and getting a lot of love.
This is the only time we see Aurora actually on screen, but I can see a few traits coming through. She is obviously kind just like Snow White and Cinderella. She seems to be very happy and dreamy too, singing about finding love and meeting someone in her dreams.
For a bit more bad traits, I could say she is a bit of a hopeless romantic if you think about it. She's never met someone and only interacted with her aunts as far as we know. She has had dreams about meeting someone, and she basically wants that to happen for real. Meeting someone and instantly falling in love with them without even really knowing them.
Maybe I would also consider her a little bit naive? She does try to walk away from Philip when he suddenly grabs her from behind and sings with her. A natural reaction I would have even if I'd be singing about true love. But when he says they've already met 'Once Upon A Dream', she falls for him and stops trying to get away from him. Also when she has to rush home she can't resist inviting the stranger to her home. She goes from 'you'll never see me again' to 'you'll see me again someday' to 'come to the cottage tonight' in about ten seconds.
Conclusion
I am sorry that this post is not too long, but honestly I couldn't make more of it than it is now. Maybe I've missed a few things, but I tried my best to analyze her character. So let's summarize:
Good Traits: Beauty/attractive, Kindness, Happy
Neutral Traits: Dreamy, Virtuoso, Dreamy
Bad traits: Hopeless Romantic, Naive
Do you agree with these picks? What would you have assigned to her after watching the original animated movie? Let me know in the comments.
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Next week, we will be getting into more fleshed out characters, the next one being Ariel (if I'm not forgetting anyone). Like I said, sorry for the short post, but I hope you will like it. Until next time!
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